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Jack and Nancy Weinstein of Las
Vegas, Nev.; sister and brother-
in-law, Sylvia and Leon Weber of
Gainsville, Fla.; grandchildren,
Jeffrey Weinstein, Randy and Lisa
Weinstein, Adam and Leah Raitt,
Amy and Scott Besuden, Jenna and
Lauren Hertz, Josh and Jake Segal;
great-granddaughter, Rachel Raitt.
Mr. Weinstein was the beloved
husband of the late Charlotte
Weinstein; dear brother and brother-
in-law of the late Fred and the late
Bertha Weinstein, the late Hy and the
late Dolly Weinstein, the late Lou and
the late Helen Weinstein.
Contributions may be made to
Alzheimer's Association, 20300
Civic Center Drive, #100, Southfield,
MI 48076; Peter Brown Jewish
Community Adult Day Care Program,
6720 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI
48322; or to a charity of one's choice.
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery in
Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew
Memorial Chapel.

RAYMOND A. WERBE, 94, died April
1, 2009, at his home in Baltimore, Md.
Born in Detroit, he was a 1933
graduate of Northwestern High and
attended Wayne University. In 1939,
he married the former Jennie Gutov
of Detroit, who died in 1996. He and
his family moved to New York City in
1961, in 1967 to Amherst, Mass., and
to Baltimore in 1999.
In Detroit, he served on the board
of the Jewish Community Center. In
Amherst, he was active in the town
Democratic Party and the Valley Peace
Center.
For more than four decades, he
was a summer resident of Monhegan
Island, Maine, where he served as
president of the Monhegan Associates.
Mr. Werbe is survived by his son,
Peter Werbe of Oak Park; his daughter,
Susan Werbe of Newton, Mass.; his
granddaughter, Katherine Werbe-Bates
of New York City; his partner, Dede
Little of Baltimore.
Contact pwerbe@yahoo.com.

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Israel Marks
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srael began its Yom HaZikaron
(Memorial Day) observance
with a one-minute siren and the
lighting of a memorial flame at the
Western Wall.
Yom HaZikaron began Tuesday
night with a national ceremony at the
Wall. President Shimon Peres and the
widow of the last soldier to be killed
in action in Gaza, Yehonatan Netanel,
lit the memorial flame. Ceremonies are
scheduled to be held across Israel in
communities and in military
cemeteries.
"A thousand words will not dampen
the pain shown in your eyes, Peres
said to the bereaved families gathered
at the ceremony. "This is a pain that
has accompanied you for years."
Peres said that Israel's existence is still
threatened, adding, "We don't want war;
but if it is forced upon us, I advise both
our friends and enemies to be on the
right side, on our side, on the side that
has always prevailed and will prevail."
Some 133 soldiers and civilians died
in the last year due to military service
or terrorist attack, according to the
Defense Ministry. The dead include 10
soldiers killed during Israel's military
operation in Gaza and a Bedouin sol-

dier killed in an explosives attack near
the Gaza border.
Civilian dead include three Israelis
killed when a Palestinian worker
went on a rampage in a bulldozer in
Jerusalem and three killed in rocket
attacks from Gaza. A total of 22,570
men and women have been killed
defending the Land of Israel since
1860, the year that Jews began settling
outside the secure walls of Jerusalem,
the Foreign Ministry reported.
Earlier Tuesday evening, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
addressed the families of fallen
soldiers at a memorial ceremony at
Jerusalem's Ammunition Hill.
"The price we have paid and are still
paying to live in this country is heavy,"
he said, vowing later to "complete the
circle of peace" with the rest of the
Jewish state's neighbors in the region.
Memorial ceremonies were to con-
tinue Wednesday in 43 military cem-
eteries, beginning with a two-minute
siren at 11 a.m. An Israeli flag with a
black ribbon along with a memorial
candle are placed on the grave of every
Israeli who fell in battle.
At sunset Wednesday, Yom
HaAtzmaut, Israel's Independence
Day, was set to begin with the raising
of the Israeli flag to full mast and the
lighting of 12 torches in a national cer-
emony on Mount Herzl.

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